Improved bracket for supporting stove-pipe shelves



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HORACE VANSANDS, CE MIDDLETCWN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 103,107, dated Veg/ 17, 1870.

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IMPRQVED vBRACKET ,FVQR SUPPQRTING move-PIPE sHELvEs.

`'.l'he Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent and making part ot the same.'

To' all whom "it may concern :f g 1 Be it known that I, HCRACEVANSANDS, of Middletown, county of` Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented `certain new and useful` Improvements in Bracket for SupportingStove-pipe Shelves; and to enable others skilled ini the art to make, and

`use the same, I will proceed to describe, referring to the drawings, in which the saine letters indicate likeIv parts in each of the figures.

The nature of this `invention consstsfin the manner ofthe construction ofthe `clasp-brackets; and

Itfnrther consists in the mannerof constructing :the shelves, so that they can be easily and quickly at` Vv'cached and detached -toor from the supporting-rod,

wherehyatheyfare rendered sel f-supportin g lat any fixed p point on said supporting-rod.

In the accompanying drawingsl p l Figure 1 is a side elevation ot' a piece of stove-pipe, upon which is arranged this improvement.` Figure 2is a top view of the same.

Fignre'is a View ofthe shelf showing how it is constructed, so that it can be easily and quickly attached and detached to`or from 4the supporting-rod, andhow it can be self-supporting upon the rod.

`(L is the stove-pipe,n V

b is a wire band, having a hook formed on each end thereof, for the purposeot' hookingT into the orifice or eye of the two-part bracket-s c. l

i This band b is of such length that, when hooked i `into, the eye of the two-part bracket c, and'l compressed together by a bolt, (Z, aroundthe .pipe a., the two-part l bracket will nearly close -together, clamping itself to the pipe'tand the ends of the shelf-supporting rod e in the recess formed in the Iprojecting portion of the brackets. Thus the brackets, with the supportingrod, can be easily and quickly removed and replaced by the screws or bolts d.

f is the shelf, lwhich, of itself, is constructed common waym Y t is the socket to receive the supportinU-rod c. This socket is'formed in two parts, it. The part t' is formed on the end of the arm of the shelf f. The` part t is provided. with arm, lv, of about the saine size of the' arm of the sheland arrangedby the sideof the shelf-arm'.

These two arms are fastened together near their upper edges-,"anda'short distance from the socket, 'so

that, by turning the'out-er portion 17in a position about.

at right angle with shelf-arm 1',-(the shelt being in nearly a perpendicular position,) and placingthe socket against the rod e, and then dropping the shelf into its natural horizontal position, the two-part socket will gripe the rods e and hold the shelf in a fixed or desirable position or height upon thc rod e. Thus the 'shelf can be easilyy and quickly removed and replaced,

as desirable.

I believe I have thus shown the nature, construction and advantage of this invention, so as to enable others skilled `in the artto make and use the same therefrom.

What I claim, thcrefore,`aml desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1.. The two-part hinged shelf-socket fi, with the rod c, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the above', the two-part clamp oit-.bracket c c, bolt 1I, and wire bands e, substantially. as set forth.

Witnesses: HORACE VANSANDS. 'L. s]

E. W. BLlss, J nRnMY W. Buss.

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